Brooks uncovers all the fun he found during his visit to the Playboy Mansion.

• John Daly finds more than one way to enjoy a beer on the golf course.

• Astros GM Ed Wade is all choked up over Shawn Chacon’s suspension.

• Pete Carroll got into a little fender-bender with a cop car from the L.A. Sheriff’s Department - or did he?

• So much for Maria Sharapova celebrating another Wimbledon win.

• The Iraqi Olympic soccer team has been blown up - not literally, thankfully.

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Numerous states have instituted a Silver Alert program similar to Amber Alert programs to help find aged adults with various forms of dementia who wander off without supervision. Radio stations, television broadcasters, pharmacy billboards, etc. would put out pictures and descriptions that would help bring the wayward elderly back home.

(This is what every batter looks like to last night’s starters)

Surprisingly, no such program exists in Arizona. Also, there’s no analogue in Massachusetts. Therefore, an ancient 44-year-old Arizonan was able to stumble away from his home and end up at Fenway Park in Boston at the same time as a 41-year-old trickster who thinks he can throw his knuckles. And that’s how Tim Wakefield and Randy Johnson ended up on the mound last night.

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• SONS OF STEVE GARVEY tosses out some fun photos of Jackie Chan kickin’ it with the Dodgers.

• STEROID NATION comes across strange news of Chinese authorities reportedly testing performance-enhancing drugs on prisoners, and somehow hoping the results can help disqualify Western athletes & give more medals to China.

• DEUCE OF DAVENPORT passes along news that Dan Marino will be giving this year’s commencement speech for the University of Pittsburgh.

• JOE SPORTS FAN can’t find any relief, as this Wrigley visitor decides to turn a urine trough into a Slip ‘n’ Slide.

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Thirteen-year-old Nate Miller crouches into the net at 6′3″, 180 lbs, to defend the net for the Junior Pens (who include Mario Lemieux’s son, Austin). His size-16 skates act as another set of blocking pads as he towers over his teammates and opponents and nearly looks the 6′4″ Mario in the eye. And yet he gave up baseball because it was cutting into hockey time.

Nate Miller simply loves hockey.

We can’t say we’re normally proponents of boys becoming singularly focused on a sport at a young age, only to develop a robotic reaction to the sport’s nuances and expose themselves to the repetition injuries that come from specialization at a ridiculously early age. For young Nate, though, we’re happy to make an exception for a specific reason.

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If Randy Johnson looked a bit bedraggled at Arizona Diamondbacks Spring Training this morning in Phoenix, we know why.

A source tells SbB that yesterday Johnson flew from Phoenix to New York City to attend the second of a three-night run by Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton at Madison Square Garden (we’re actually going tomorrow night, yes!). Read more…